conc▪ [vI] is the regular vn. of ḥāfaẓa (ʕalà), vb. III, 1 to preserve, keep up, maintain, uphold, sustain; 2 to supervise, control, watch over s.th.; 3a to watch out for, take care, be heedful, be mindful of, look after, attend, pay attention to; b to keep, follow, observe, bear in mind, comply with, conform to; 4 to protect, guard, defend. – ḥāfaẓa is the (applicative) L-stem of ↗ḥafiẓa ‘to preserve, keep, maintain, defend, etc.’, itself from protCSem *ḥpṯ̣ ‘to be mindful of, be attentive, care, preserve’.
▪ [vII] is a synecdochic concretisation of [vI.4], where *‘protecting, guarding, defending’ has taken on the sense of the means with which protection etc. is achieved, namely a ‘dressing, ligature, bandage’.
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